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How patient advocates help advance profound autism research August 12, 2026
By Holly Alyssa MacCormick Some of the biggest advances in autism research have come from a unique and dedicated group—the families and patient advocates who live with autism every day. Matthew State, MD, PhD, chief scientific advisor for the Aligning Research to Impact Autism (ARIA) initiative and chair of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the […]
Summer of science for these CIRM students August 7, 2026
In a summer doubleheader, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) hosted back-to-back conferences over two weekends for hundreds of aspiring California student scientists. Together, these events highlight the pipeline of homegrown talent that will shape the next decade of stem cell and gene therapy breakthroughs in California. California voters invested in regenerative medicine not just to […]
Three CIRM-funded approaches advance potential Parkinson’s treatments July 30, 2026
Holding a curved device that looked a bit like a mariner’s sextant, neurosurgeon Warren Boling explained how he’ll use it to precisely deliver a new gene therapy deep into the brains of Parkinson’s patients participating in a pivotal clinical trial. Dr. Boling, the chair of neurosurgery at Loma Linda University Health, described the procedure during […]